Bendis and Maleev’s Scarlet is about a young woman, named Scarlet Rue, who sees her boyfriend murdered by a corrupt cop, and is herself shot by that cop. She gets out of the hospital intent on revenge. She’s going to take down the cop who murdered her boyfriend and the system that rewards cops for being corrupt. She’s not a masked vigilante, she lets the police and the public know who she is and why she’s killing cops. She becomes a rallying point for people […]
